Alicia Luchowski
@alicialuchowski.bsky.social
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A team of workers at the CDC monitored the safety of birth control for millions of women with underlying health conditions. Then HHS fired them. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
HHS Eliminates CDC Staff Who Made Sure Birth Control Is Safe for Women at Risk - KFF Health News
The Trump administration eliminated the CDC team that developed national guidelines for prescribing contraception safely for millions of women with underlying medical conditions.
kffhealthnews.org
July 1, 2025 at 1:33 PM
A team of workers at the CDC monitored the safety of birth control for millions of women with underlying health conditions. Then HHS fired them. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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My latest for @jama.com:
Experts inside and outside the CDC have been left stunned and puzzled by the decimation of a nearly 80-year-old agency that has been a global leader in public health.
Learn how decimating the CDC will cost many lives in the US and abroad.
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Learn how decimating the CDC will cost many lives in the US and abroad.
#MedSky ja.ma/42AWj98
Experts Say CDC Cuts Will Cost Lives
This Medical News article discusses how recent workforce and program reductions at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will affect public health.
ja.ma
April 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
My latest for @jama.com:
MEC is referenced by "every clinician that addresses contraception in a clinical care visit in this country and many outside of this country" and having the team behind it terminated is "unconscionable."
Clinicians Worry About Loss of a Critical CDC Contraceptive Guideline
Without updated guidelines, patients with rare or chronic conditions face extra risk
www.medpagetoday.com
April 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
MEC is referenced by "every clinician that addresses contraception in a clinical care visit in this country and many outside of this country" and having the team behind it terminated is "unconscionable."
“It is just unsafe for our country to not have guidelines like this to help people make the right decisions for themselves and their family. Contraception saves lives, period,” the fired researcher says.
CDC team that updated go-to physician reference on contraceptive science is fired
Scientists combed the literature, synthesizing evidence of safety for busy providers
www.science.org
April 16, 2025 at 12:31 PM
“It is just unsafe for our country to not have guidelines like this to help people make the right decisions for themselves and their family. Contraception saves lives, period,” the fired researcher says.
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Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to freeze tens of millions of dollars designated for certain family planning organizations, including Planned Parenthood, while their DEI efforts are examined
Exclusive | Trump Administration Plans to Freeze Family-Planning Grants
Tens of millions of dollars in federal funding for Planned Parenthood and other groups would be cut off while the administration examines their DEI efforts.
buff.ly
March 25, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to freeze tens of millions of dollars designated for certain family planning organizations, including Planned Parenthood, while their DEI efforts are examined
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‘There’s no other solution’: Polish abortion centre opens in challenge to strict laws
‘There’s no other solution’: Polish abortion centre opens in challenge to strict laws
Frustrated by government’s failure to ease rules, an NGO is opening a centre a stone’s throw from parliament in Warsaw
They poured on to streets across Poland in their hundreds of thousands, carrying placards reading “The revolution has a uterus” and “My…
www.theguardian.com
March 7, 2025 at 1:07 PM
‘There’s no other solution’: Polish abortion centre opens in challenge to strict laws
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Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen wins NFL MVP
Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen wins NFL MVP
Josh Allen continued his journey from hardly recruited high school quarterback in Firebaugh, Calif., to the individual pinnacle of the NFL on Thursday night, winning his first Most Valuable Player Award.
buffalonews.com
February 7, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen wins NFL MVP
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The Martyrdom of Saint James, by Francisco de Zurbarán, 1640
January 27, 2025 at 2:12 AM
The Martyrdom of Saint James, by Francisco de Zurbarán, 1640
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#GeneChat friends/others interested in abortion access... Please know: the awesome @laurahercher.bsky.social has curated a special virtual issue on this topic for the Journal of Genetic Counseling - AND all the articles in it are *free to read* for the month
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
Special Issue on Abortion: Journal of Genetic Counseling
Click on the title to browse this issue
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 7, 2025 at 12:56 AM
#GeneChat friends/others interested in abortion access... Please know: the awesome @laurahercher.bsky.social has curated a special virtual issue on this topic for the Journal of Genetic Counseling - AND all the articles in it are *free to read* for the month
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
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As called by Chris Brown on Buffalo Bills radio:
November 18, 2024 at 12:22 AM
As called by Chris Brown on Buffalo Bills radio: